The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-20


Harness. at the Museum this week and
Tanning Of the 6hrsw'' next. Boston
loves the company, but considers it slight
that both weeks are not devoted to the
"Hhrew." 9
One Of the "vacation" Days may turn
TO his proper vocation; 1t y proposed to
make William instructor Of the new athletic
club.
The Boston theater's season will taper out
with the cheap and awful .spnder the Gas
light sort Of business. Next winter come
Howell's '.Foregone ConclWhon," Brandes
1atthsws' ''Marjorie's Lovers'' probably)
and elaine, !" by q. p. LAthrop and Harry
.Edwards--the bones by Tsnnyson.
McCaull's consolidated opera company
will give performances for four weeks hero
next winter. II will include the best
singers Of his three companies.
Goodwin's month at the Park begins May
50. s
Brocolini opera company It Oakland Gar
deh after june II. R
Jacobs y Proctor, Who run cheap thea
ters n : numbsr Of cities, win turn Colum-
biA rink into one.
Milmdo to b revived II the Globe May
28. Ruddygors played out.
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Now that Ill New England is undergoing
the spring spasm Of enforcement of the
liquor NV some may be interested in know
ing how Boston dossn't,d do II.
Il Il q course easier to tell what is not
accomplished than what II, but the sub
staA6l results may be summed up thus:
The eheap hquoring places have to obey the
law. u 6vAde It BY stealth. The elegant
hotsl bAr rooms sell - they please.
The a1nsrtion was gravely published not
long 80 that every hotel q the North and
Wet End1 was strictly obeying the law.
Yet on ~ Sunday when this announcement
was modS n would have been difficult to
have fouiz4 hotel cafe In that or the south
part Of t6s town where large business was
not d0ne IA selling. liquor to persons who
were "a - sense '.gusSts."
Sunday works curious transformation
In thess places. One corner Of the dining
room q usually supplied with extra chairs;
cloths are removed from the tables and .
sign y pnt up: 1.-THE Bar Closed on Sum-
day"
Then The proprietor Il ready for business,
and walters arc kept busy Al day in bring
ing from behind the scenes choice mixtures
of Bourbon, Old Tom and Santa Cruz. The
incoming patron Is motioned toward the
drinking tables by the walters. II Is taken
for granted that he is afflicted with Sunday
thirst, and has no desire for food. Tho
walters Judge from experiences For many
BostcniAns Sunday v Rotail0+as ~ ~ "
which one drinks at . table instead pf 9 bar,
and pays an extra pricefor his alcohol
+s%
This class of citizens received a severe
shock on the first Sunday of May. 'Like as
a hart that panteth after the water brook"
they might have been seen hurrying with
woe-begone faces from street to street, only
to find the restaurants deserted, the walters
snoozing in corner and, on demand, grunting
out the information that no liquors would be
sold. The licenses for the ensuing year had
been granted, but had not been formally
made out. Early in the afternoon the
pressure on the obliging police commission
ers became SO great that they determined
to remove the embargo, and sent an
officer around to give notice that the
schooners might thenceforward sail to the
havens offered by the thirsty guests" with
out danger from police cruisers.
Kind commissioners! How lucky that
Boston doesn't have city police, but is
made moral by the state's Intervention!
The majority of the finer restaurants of
the town are turned into guzzling places
after II o'clock each night A hotel
License covers more sins than charity.
The flow of fluids is not SO smooth in some
of the cheaper hotels. These often have
Sunday bar in an out-of -the-way corner.
and keep a watchman at the door to look
out for the blue-coats. No quarter Of the
CITY is entirely deprived of its nectar on the
day of rest.
Very naughty in ''little brother Herald
to keep on iterating that it once "sold"
5000 more copies on the strength of its le-
gitimate news than The Globe ''printed" ON
the day when it gave away free horse car
tickets as a chrome. The Globe has never
stated how many it sold that day.
The Record persistently misspells the
names of actors and sporting men.
No authors club-Advertiser smothered
the infant.
Weep for the martyrs who are hence
forward .rioters'' The "Boston massa-
ere" was not an outrage after ALL The |
proud papa will no more point to his inquir-
Ing son Cne tdUleU Oh Otduo SIIeet wall,
near the old state house, which declares
that Near this spot was she'd the first |
blood Of the American revolution. It has
always been mystery why a lot Of hood
lums who attacked q few unoffending sold
iers on old King street became by that act
heroes; and now the Massachusetts, His
torical society declares that it was only be
cause these lawless persons were killed that
they were afterward honored, and because
the conflict in which they were engaged led
to a greater conflict, which resulted in
American independence.
The Institute of Technology, to which it
is proposed the state shall give 500, 900 for
twenty free scholarships, now has about
forty instructors and 600 students. Its
courses cover engineering, architecture,
and the mechanic arts, and it
a society Of arts and museum Of
models, drawing, etc. The appropriation,
reported in the legislature, is bssed on the
that the Institute shall secure a
further gift of 800, 900 from some source.
The reopening of the Bowdoin Square
church by the Massachusetts, Baptist con-
vention wou i'd he boon to the neighbor
hood and the city if it should mark the final
of Downs, not because of his